Covid pilot events, Ian Rankin, Janine Jansen, Neal Cooper
Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus crime novels, has recently completed a book left unfinished by the father of the ‘tartan noir’ genre William McIlvanney who died in 2015. Ian explains how he pieced together the fragments and notes left by McIlvanney and wrote his own sections of The Dark Remains, a prequel to McIlvanney’s Laidlaw series. He also reveals that the experience of working on the novel may mean a new lease of life for Rebus.With summer music festivals linked to spikes in Covid cases and new pilot data released from the Government’s Events Research Programme, social…
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